Even when you are well, you still have to pretend to be sick.

Since Concubine Dong doesn't want to die and wants to live to help her son, she must be well.

Moreover, after Dong Lang fell off the cliff, Concubine Dong completely understood one thing -

She and Dong Lang are just pawns of Emperor Qing.

"I don't want to be a pawn! I'm a favorite concubine!"

Since she is a favorite concubine, she should be treated as a favorite concubine.

Instead of just carrying a stigma.

Of course, for now, Concubine Dong doesn't dare to be too ostentatious.

She could only pretend to be sick to avoid Empress Yuan's targeting and cause Emperor Qing's heartache.

Alas, a seriously ill person may die at any time, so why bother with her?

Concubine Dong was ill for half a year.

The situation in the palace changed.

Concubine Dong is still favored, but Emperor Qing always gets drunk or recognizes the wrong person.

The number of low-ranking palace maids becoming pregnant increased.

Empress Yuan and Empress Dowager Yuan shifted their attention from Concubine Dong and the other three concubines to the pregnant palace maids every day.

Concubine Dong: ...

Donglang, grow up quickly.

Mother is waiting for you to return to the capital with your troops!

…

Ding! Dang!

In the blacksmith shop in North City, Gu Qingcheng stood on the outskirts, watching several blacksmiths hammering hard with their bare chests.

"Your Highness, look, is this piece of iron okay?"

After hammering for a while, an older blacksmith came up to Gu Qingcheng with a piece of iron in pliers.

If it were a few months ago, the blacksmith would not have dared to be so presumptuous in front of the noble.

In ancient times, the status of craftsmen was very low.

Some trades that need to be kept secret, such as iron smelting and casting, may even leave craftsmen disabled.

The most tragic example is the craftsmen who built the imperial tomb.

Many people were directly killed or buried alive.

Gu Qingcheng is an ancient native with strict class concepts in his bones.

However, after binding with the system, he entered a different novel world.

She herself used to be a "craftsman".

She has a completely new understanding of this class.

Perhaps, she was not yet able to treat craftsmen as people of equal class, but she recognized the importance of craftsmen.

Great craftsman!

Craftsmen can promote social development!

For a person in a higher position, people who are valuable should be valued!

This time, he has transformed into the Ninth Prince and needs to seize the highest position, so Gu Qingcheng needs all kinds of talents.

Among many talents, craftsmen are indispensable and very important.

Not to mention anything else, just the armor, weapons, etc. needed by the army require craftsmen to forge, or even "invent" better and more sophisticated things.

"not bad!"

Gu Qingcheng took a closer look and nodded with satisfaction, "Let's study the formula again to see if we can increase the strength."

Gu Qingcheng is not pretending to know everything. As someone with level nine skills, she may not be able to make a nuclear bomb by hand, but improving the formula of fine iron, improving bows and crossbows, etc., should be no problem.

However, Gu Qingcheng cannot act too evil.

After all, here, she is the respected Ninth Prince, not a craftsman.

Being able to come up with an idea shows that she is smart enough.

Specific research and development and experiments require craftsmen to try repeatedly.

For example, for black gunpowder, Gu Qingcheng also found a sorcerer's notes as an excuse and came up with a rough formula.

The specific ratio requires the craftsman to study it himself...

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